Personal Guiding Principles
As Terence McKenna said, sometimes a series of “nots” is required.
Not letting the visual elements of a note-taking tool distract me from the actual ideas and my understanding of them. Not making things too "pretty".
Not using Obsidian for a million different use cases like task and project management, keeping it only for notes.
Aesthetics
Theme: Minimal with Things style theme
Font: iA Writer Quatro - Github font download link
Structural Interface
Having all notes automatically go to my Notes folder so I don't see a cluttered root folder
Adding the local graph view for each note to the right sidebar menu
Minimal number of folders
Adding File Explorer Note Count plugin
Split view/panels for notes
Function
Adding hotkeys for: navigating back (cmd+open square bracket), current time (opt+t), footnotes (opt+f), move block up or down (cmd+up arrow/down arrow) and more
Creating templates for my 2 main note types: default notes and source notes (book and media notes)
Adding template properties (tags, month)
Cleaning up my tags
Remember: quick switcher (cmd+o) to create and navigate to notes faster
Using plugins intentionally for actions that I do multiple times a day
Pasting a link: Paste URL into selection plugin
Adding link aliases: cmd+J (custom hotkey) using the Link with alias plugin
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